PSG 3-0 Real Madrid: 3 Reasons why Los Blancos lost the match | UEFA Champions League 2019-20

#1 A poor showing in all departments

Idrissa Gueye floors Karim Benzema with a solid tackle

While their attack might receive most of the stick in the defeat to PSG, the bottom line is that virtually every department in the team was substandard in the game.

Real Madrid spent in excess of €300m to bolster their squad during the summer, but they have looked eerily similar to the disjointed outfit that bumbled their way through last season.

In four La Liga games this term, Zidane's men have won just two and drawn the other two fixtures and even in the matches they won, they did not look convincing at all. It was only a matter of time before a quality opposition laid bare their deficiencies.

That opposition happened to be PSG, and while Real Madrid might have lost, the manner in which they did would have left a bitter taste in the mouths of Madridistas the world over.

Thibaut Courtois might have been unable to do much about any of the three goals he conceded, but the fact that the Belgian cannot buy a clean sheet if his life depended on it is worrying, to say the least.

Ahead of him, the newly recruited Eder Militao failed to impress on his full debut in the absence of Sergio Ramos and was responsible for at least two of the three goals conceded. Ferland Mendy did not effectively contain Pablo Sarabia on the flanks, while Idrissa Gueye absolutely bossed Toni Kroos and James Rodriguez in the midfield. As already touched on, their attack was blatantly impotent, with Eden Hazard being perhaps the worst of the lot.

Zinedine Zidane was ostensibly brought in to help steady the Real Madrid ship and given the requisite funds to augment his squad, but as PSG showed, his rebuilding is far from complete.